Re: [PATCH]a tar filesystem for 2.6.10-rc1-mm3

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

Hi!

>   let's think about the way we access the file which contained in a tar file
> may we can untar the whole thing and we find the file we want to access
> or we can use the t option with tar to list all the files in the tar
> and then untar
> the only one file we want to access.
> 
>   but with the help of the tarfs,we can mount a tar file to some dir and access
> it easily and quickly.it's like the tarfs in mc.
> 
>  just mount -t tarfs tarfile.tar /dir/to/mnt -o loop
> then access the files easily.
> 
> it was writen by Kazuto Miyoshi (kaz@earth.email.ne.jp) Hirokazu
> Takahashi (h-takaha@mub.biglobe.ne.jp) for linux 2.4.0
> 
> and i make it work for linux 2.6.0. now a patch for linux
> 2.6.10-rc1-mm3

Hmm, at least it needs to be indented by tab, see
Documentation/CodingStyle. If it could do compressed tars... well I
could find a use for _that_...
									Pavel

> +static int tarfs_readdir(struct file * filp,
> +                        void * dirent, filldir_t filldir)
> +{
> +  struct inode *inode = filp->f_dentry->d_inode;
> +  int err;
> +  struct tarent *dir_tarent, *ent;
> +  int dtype=0;
> +  int count, stored;
> +
> +  dir_tarent = TARENT(inode);
> +
> +  message("tarfs: tarfs_readdir (dir_tarent %p, f_pos %ld)\n",
> +         dir_tarent, (long)filp->f_pos);
> +

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